perl-ldap-dev

[Fwd] creating LDAP entries

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

----- Forwarded message from Paul Jones <PJ...@no...> -----

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:34:56 -0700
To: <gb...@po...>
From: "Paul Jones" <PJ...@no...>
Subject: creating LDAP entries
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.5.1

Graham,

This looks like an excellent module.  I have a question about creating entries though.  How do I specify what type of entry to enter? ie. How do I specify that I want to create a 'group' object, or 'user' object, or any other type of object?  Other than that, I think this might be a very useful tool.  If I am writting to the wrong place, please let me know who I should contact.

Thank you,


Paul Jones
Developer Support
Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software
www.novell.com 




----- End forwarded message -----

Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Eric N. <eni...@cp...>]

This might have been asked before.
Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in LDIF
format to a variable rather than a file?

I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..

Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

It should be possible using the IO::Scalar package.

Create the IO::Scalar object then

my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($io_scalar,"w");
$ldif->write(@entries);

should work, but I have not tried it

Graham.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:06AM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> This might have been asked before.
> Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in LDIF
> format to a variable rather than a file?
> 
> I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Eric N. <eni...@cp...>]

No such luck.  I tried everything.  I guess there isn't a method in LDIF to
output to a variable?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Barr" <gb...@po...>
To: "Eric Nichols" <eni...@cp...>
Cc: <per...@li...>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?


> It should be possible using the IO::Scalar package.
>
> Create the IO::Scalar object then
>
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($io_scalar,"w");
> $ldif->write(@entries);
>
> should work, but I have not tried it
>
> Graham.
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:06AM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> > This might have been asked before.
> > Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in
LDIF
> > format to a variable rather than a file?
> >
> > I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

RE: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Behruz R. <beh...@cp...>]

Hi Eric,

check out the next Web site , there is a great article about NET::LDAP by
MArk Wilcox.
There is alos an example with LDIF.

http://www.perlmonth.com/features/ldap/ldap.html?issue=11


Behruz

-----Original Message-----
From: per...@li...
[mailto:per...@li...]On Behalf Of Eric
Nichols
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:48 AM
To: per...@li...
Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?


No such luck.  I tried everything.  I guess there isn't a method in LDIF to
output to a variable?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Barr" <gb...@po...>
To: "Eric Nichols" <eni...@cp...>
Cc: <per...@li...>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?


> It should be possible using the IO::Scalar package.
>
> Create the IO::Scalar object then
>
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($io_scalar,"w");
> $ldif->write(@entries);
>
> should work, but I have not tried it
>
> Graham.
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:06AM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> > This might have been asked before.
> > Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in
LDIF
> > format to a variable rather than a file?
> >
> > I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Eric N. <eni...@cp...>]

No such luck,
I got it to work, except IO::Scalar dosen't support the TELL function?

Can't locate object method "TELL" via package "IO::Scalar" at
C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/LDAP/LDIF.pm line 169.

Source code:
---
use Net::LDAP::Entry;
use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
use IO::Scalar;

my ($destentry) = Net::LDAP::Entry->new;
$destentry->add('cn'=>['Eric Nichols']);
$destentry->dn('cn=eric nichols,o=cps');

my $s;
tie *OUT, 'IO::Scalar', \$s;

my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(\*OUT,"a");
$ldif->write($destentry);
$ldif->done();

print $s;
---
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Barr" <gb...@po...>
To: "Eric Nichols" <eni...@cp...>
Cc: <per...@li...>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?


> It should be possible using the IO::Scalar package.
>
> Create the IO::Scalar object then
>
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($io_scalar,"w");
> $ldif->write(@entries);
>
> should work, but I have not tried it
>
> Graham.
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:06AM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> > This might have been asked before.
> > Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in
LDIF
> > format to a variable rather than a file?
> >
> > I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

That is an easy fix to IO::Scalar though

sub TELL { shift->{Pos} }

Graham.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:34:40PM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> No such luck,
> I got it to work, except IO::Scalar dosen't support the TELL function?
> 
> Can't locate object method "TELL" via package "IO::Scalar" at
> C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/LDAP/LDIF.pm line 169.
> 
> Source code:
> ---
> use Net::LDAP::Entry;
> use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
> use IO::Scalar;
> 
> my ($destentry) = Net::LDAP::Entry->new;
> $destentry->add('cn'=>['Eric Nichols']);
> $destentry->dn('cn=eric nichols,o=cps');
> 
> my $s;
> tie *OUT, 'IO::Scalar', \$s;
> 
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(\*OUT,"a");
> $ldif->write($destentry);
> $ldif->done();
> 
> print $s;
> ---
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Barr" <gb...@po...>
> To: "Eric Nichols" <eni...@cp...>
> Cc: <per...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?
> 
> 
> > It should be possible using the IO::Scalar package.
> >
> > Create the IO::Scalar object then
> >
> > my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($io_scalar,"w");
> > $ldif->write(@entries);
> >
> > should work, but I have not tried it
> >
> > Graham.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:06AM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> > > This might have been asked before.
> > > Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in
> LDIF
> > > format to a variable rather than a file?
> > >
> > > I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> 

Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Eryq <er...@ze...>]

Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> That is an easy fix to IO::Scalar though
> 
> sub TELL { shift->{Pos} }
> 
> Graham.
> 

Consider it on the queue.  I should get to it tonight;
somebody please bug me if they don't see it on CPAN
soon.

Eryq

Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

[Eric N. <eni...@cp...>]

Thanks for all the help!  I've never seen responses so quick!

I did figure out one snipit of code, this just writes it to STDOUT.
Actually any existing file handle can be used.
   my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(\*STDOUT,"a");
   $ldif->write_cmd($destentry);
   $ldif->done();

This sounds obvious to the experienced, but to us lay people....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eryq" <er...@ze...>
To: "Graham Barr" <gb...@po...>
Cc: "Eric Nichols" <eni...@cp...>;
<per...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?


> Graham Barr wrote:
> >
> > That is an easy fix to IO::Scalar though
> >
> > sub TELL { shift->{Pos} }
> >
> > Graham.
> >
>
> Consider it on the queue.  I should get to it tonight;
> somebody please bug me if they don't see it on CPAN
> soon.
>
> Eryq
>
>

Re: [Fwd] creating LDAP entries

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Jones <PJ...@no...> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:34:56 -0700
> To: <gb...@po...>
> From: "Paul Jones" <PJ...@no...>
> Subject: creating LDAP entries
> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.5.1
> 
> Graham,
> 
> This looks like an excellent module.  I have a question about creating
> entries though.  How do I specify what type of entry to enter? ie. How do
> I specify that I want to create a 'group' object, or 'user' object, or
> any other type of object?  Other than that, I think this might be a very
> useful tool.  If I am writting to the wrong place, please let me know who
> I should contact.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Paul Jones
> Developer Support
> Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software
> www.novell.com 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 

You need to have some understanding of the schema provided by your
directory server. Most servers implement the schema described in RFC 2256,
so you should get a copy of that and work out what objectclasses map to
what you're trying to model. It isn't terribly descriptive though - the
X.521 standard actually describes the standard objectclasses a lot better,
so you might want to look for your copy of X.521. (You can drafts of it
from ftp://ftp.bull.com/pub/OSIdirectory/)

For example, the standard objectclasses 'groupOfNames' and
'groupOfUniqueNames' are typically used to represent groups.

'User's might use the 'person' or 'organizationalPerson' objectclass if the
user's a person, or something like 'applicationEntity' if it is a program
of some type. There's another RFC - 2798 - that defines 'inetOrgPerson',
which is another way to describe a person.

Cheers,

Chris